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isis tricky because planning done several years in advance. me how ieople asked chose these three opportunities and it was really like that. it was one by one, the ones i was supposed to conduct i didn't because i wasn't ready for conducting yet. when we projected that we thought it would work, then the best choice in the best layout for me were these three pieces. that is rather how we're doing it. >> are they among your favorite? >> oh, always. i never agree to conduct something that i'm not so close to that i can say with my favor while it was going on. there is so much great music, there's no need to conduct something you don't feel the deepest affinity for. >> to find new things? >> always. >> really? you, aret might be for you finding new composers? and -- i do one thing which is a little different from some of my colleagues. a lot of my colleagues are in situations where the quantity of new music they can do is greater ahead of athey are symphony orchestra, the turnover is one new program every week. whereas at the met, i do three progr
isis tricky because planning done several years in advance. me how ieople asked chose these three opportunities and it was really like that. it was one by one, the ones i was supposed to conduct i didn't because i wasn't ready for conducting yet. when we projected that we thought it would work, then the best choice in the best layout for me were these three pieces. that is rather how we're doing it. >> are they among your favorite? >> oh, always. i never agree to conduct something...
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the iranian enemy, isis, the sworn enemy of the saudis. isis in syria and iraq. and islamic extremists are not the pro-saudi islamic extremists. the guy says he wants to be a caliph. that means the king of saudi arabia is illegitimate. custodian. >> he wants to be the king of all of islam. >> if you're sitting in the royal palace in riyadh it is a pretty dangerous situation all around you. you have some success. in egypt, you rolled back history. >> by getting sisi to overthrow mohamed morsi. do you think to -- that they and said to sisi, him, you can do it? >> sisi was in the past the egyptian defense attachÉ at riyadh. it was a long-standing relationship with the saudi intelligence services. >> it shows you to understand history you look at the relationships. when sisi took over and king abdullah called him, i do not think that was prearranged. i do not think it was, hey, i am watching cnn, let me call you up. it was partially made in saudi arabia. ♪ >> khalid mashal. >> only because of king hussein is he living today. >> that was in the 1990's. i was workin
the iranian enemy, isis, the sworn enemy of the saudis. isis in syria and iraq. and islamic extremists are not the pro-saudi islamic extremists. the guy says he wants to be a caliph. that means the king of saudi arabia is illegitimate. custodian. >> he wants to be the king of all of islam. >> if you're sitting in the royal palace in riyadh it is a pretty dangerous situation all around you. you have some success. in egypt, you rolled back history. >> by getting sisi to...
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the isi had to be intimately involved. >> there was a relationship between the isi, the pakistani secret service and osama bin laden from the get-go. >> absolutely. the second thing we know for sure is it was the isi who introduced osama bin laden to when osama bin laden came back to afghanistan. he left and goes off to the sudan and the u.s. gets him chased out and he comes back and it is the iis i that -- isi the connected them. when president clinton fired tomahawk missiles after the attack on the embassies in east africa, we know who was at that location. whom wereicers, 10 of killed. we know that for fact. what were they doing at that location? they were getting ready to meet osama bin laden. >> did he leave and turn one way rather than another way? >> there are all kinds of stories. he may have been there, i half hour off, we do know is who was there and that is the isi. when this connection, when this relationship came to an end or if it ever came to an end is one of the biggest mysteries we still do not know. >> the relationship came to an end. >> between the isi and osama bin la
the isi had to be intimately involved. >> there was a relationship between the isi, the pakistani secret service and osama bin laden from the get-go. >> absolutely. the second thing we know for sure is it was the isi who introduced osama bin laden to when osama bin laden came back to afghanistan. he left and goes off to the sudan and the u.s. gets him chased out and he comes back and it is the iis i that -- isi the connected them. when president clinton fired tomahawk missiles after...
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isi. has always allowed in north waziristan a safe haven for the people who were fighting the united states and the afghan government so they could slide back and forth at will. >> that's right. and general, i have interviewed at this table say you can never win as long as they can do that. do you agree with that? >> it is awfully hard. very few countries, one generation fight the same war twice. we have done that in afghanistan. the biggest take away for me is it is a whole lot easier if you have the pakastanis helping you over throw the government in kaka bull if you to the government kabul trying to fight anin insurgency backed by the isi. >> the pakastanis took all the risks, all of the casualties, and were the strategic masters of the war, it wasn't charlie wilson's war, it was the pakastani dictators. >> who was a great friend of charlie wilson. >> who was a great friend of charlie wilson. >> we tried to do the opposite in the last 12 years and it is very, very, very hard to do. the
isi. has always allowed in north waziristan a safe haven for the people who were fighting the united states and the afghan government so they could slide back and forth at will. >> that's right. and general, i have interviewed at this table say you can never win as long as they can do that. do you agree with that? >> it is awfully hard. very few countries, one generation fight the same war twice. we have done that in afghanistan. the biggest take away for me is it is a whole lot...
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if you do nothing, some very smart people are saying we saw the rise of isis which is now one of the biggest threats we face of a national security front. >> i think the galling thing for some people -- leon panetta when he was over at cia, david petraeus, internally within the obama administration they were warning back a year ago, if we do nothing in syria, first of all it will spill over and we are creating a vacuum in which these sorts of forces can grow so they were lobbying quite specifically that we have to start arming the moderate opposition and start creating that. they now feel their views were painfully vindicated by events and that's exactly what they andicted has come to pass, now it may be too late or we have to do something much bigger. i think this was true well a lot of the foreign-policy agencies all against the white house and the white house was very firm. >> the president had done a series of interviews. one with the economist and another with todd freeman in which he tried to outline his foreign-policy and he started with the west point speech. >> on syria, he
if you do nothing, some very smart people are saying we saw the rise of isis which is now one of the biggest threats we face of a national security front. >> i think the galling thing for some people -- leon panetta when he was over at cia, david petraeus, internally within the obama administration they were warning back a year ago, if we do nothing in syria, first of all it will spill over and we are creating a vacuum in which these sorts of forces can grow so they were lobbying quite...
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and by doing nothing, some very smart people are saying we saw the rise of isis which is now one of the biggest threats we face on the national security front. >> right. i think the galling thing for people in the state department, and other people, leone panetta over at cia, david petraeus is that internally within the obama administration they were warning this. they were saying back a year ago, year and a half ago if we do nothing in syria, first of all it will not stay in syria, it's going to spill over to iraq. and we'll be creating a vacuum in which these sorts of forces can grow. and so they were lobbying quite specifically that we have to start arming the moderate opposition, we have to start creating that. and so they now feel their views were painfully vindicated by events, exactly what they predicted has come to pass and now it may be too late or now we have to do something much bigger. i think there is a sense of gallingness. and i think was true of a lot of the foreign policy agencies, all against the white house and the white house was very firm, no, no, we're not going to
and by doing nothing, some very smart people are saying we saw the rise of isis which is now one of the biggest threats we face on the national security front. >> right. i think the galling thing for people in the state department, and other people, leone panetta over at cia, david petraeus is that internally within the obama administration they were warning this. they were saying back a year ago, year and a half ago if we do nothing in syria, first of all it will not stay in syria, it's...
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if isis comes out on top, it could look more dangerous. >> isis has this advantage in that it has this huge battlefield in which fighters can fight. it has largely been confined and bottled up -- they don't have that same recruiting. it can't give that opportunity for young men to come and fight. >> not yet. i think this is the possible salvation of al qaeda. what is about to happen in afghanistan. if we make exactly the same mistake in afghanistan that we made in iraq and pull out completely, allow political vacuum, lose our leverage, it is possible that al qaeda, which has already acknowledged the authority of omar, that they could reinvigorate in afghanistan. then we would be looking at a much more dangerous circumstance. this tunnel vision that we have around mount sinjar, the danger of that is that we miss a much broader set of risks including the possibility of a resurgent al qaeda in afghanistan. >> don't you think the administration understands this? >> i hope they do. i don't hear it coming from people. i don't see a single unified focus on this range of problems. what i see i
if isis comes out on top, it could look more dangerous. >> isis has this advantage in that it has this huge battlefield in which fighters can fight. it has largely been confined and bottled up -- they don't have that same recruiting. it can't give that opportunity for young men to come and fight. >> not yet. i think this is the possible salvation of al qaeda. what is about to happen in afghanistan. if we make exactly the same mistake in afghanistan that we made in iraq and pull out...
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tonight the isis threat in iraq. we begin with the deputy assistant secretary of state for iraq and iran brett mcgurk. >> we have a baseline assumption now that isis/isil t is interchangeable, isil is better, they're better equipped, they're better manned, better resourced, better fighters. they're better trained than the al qaeda in a recognize that our forces faced. and if you accept that based on assumption which we do and then you look at the capacity of the iraqi security forces or locally based security forces such as tribal networks, you start to see the big gap that's going to have to be filled. and so it's a tremendous challenge. >> rose: we broader our discussion to include david kilcullen, michael hanna and bill spindle. >> they have been competing in fighting each other in the streets of syria, they're very different and in fact although they're just as brutal as each other and have a similar jihadist ideology this is a turf battle. and if isis comes out on top it could look more dang wrong than what we a
tonight the isis threat in iraq. we begin with the deputy assistant secretary of state for iraq and iran brett mcgurk. >> we have a baseline assumption now that isis/isil t is interchangeable, isil is better, they're better equipped, they're better manned, better resourced, better fighters. they're better trained than the al qaeda in a recognize that our forces faced. and if you accept that based on assumption which we do and then you look at the capacity of the iraqi security forces or...